Word Finder - monolith

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A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times.

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Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure.

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A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc.

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A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by breaking off or cutting its branches.

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To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith.

Near Kempoch point is a monolith of mica-schist, 6 ft.

Then, one day, a black monolith appears.

This is a giant sandstone monolith rising nearly 400 meters above the surrounding desert.

This monolith was raised by the people of Dunvegan, using ropes and a wooden A-frame.

Jain monolith statue carved by an unknown mason in 980.

I had never seen it before and somehow I knew this weedy monolith must mark the lair of Decay.

A very ancient monolith in the graveyard is inscribed in Latin and is of archeological interest.

Brandberg Mountain is an ancient Bushman spiritual site and tonight we will sleep under the shadow of this giant granite monolith.

A slate monolith was very generously donated by McAlpine Slate Ltd. from the Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda.

Monolith's F.E.A.R. is published by VU Games and is rated M for Mature.

The people quite rightly mistrust the giant bureaucratic monolith which is Brussels.

At one point, quite unsigned, by a Sustrans marker, is a big concrete monolith.

Right know she 's making these strange warbling noises to a huge empty cornflakes box that stands monolith like on the floor.

A mysterious monolith, a large rectangular object of densest black, is somehow erected in their midst.

You will arrive at a huge art decor monolith.

From the main pedestal project four buttresses, on which are seated four monolith figures representing Morality, Education, Law, and Freedom.

The next class of dam to be considered is that in which the structure as a whole is so bound together that, with certain reservations, it may be considered as a monolith subject chiefly to the overturning tendency of waterpressure resisted by the weight of the structure itself and the supporting pressure of the foundation.

A portion of its western front, adorned with monolith unfluted Corinthian columns, is still standing - the familiar " Stoa of Hadrian "; another well-preserved portion, with six pilasters, runs parallel to the west side of Aeolus Street.

They appear to be connected with Semitic sun-worship, and are assigned by Bent to the same period as the temple at Baalbek, though some antiquarians would place them much earlier; the representation of a castle in a single stone seems to bear some relation to the idea worked out in the monolith churches of Lalibela described byRaffray.

Beyond the outer circle (not shown on plan) a great monolith - the sun stone, or so-called "Friar's Heel" - standing on the axis of the horseshoe, marks the point where a spectator, centrally placed within the horseshoe, would see the sun rise on the horizon at the solstice.

It is circular internally and decagonal externally, in two storeys, built of marble blocks, and surmounted by an enormous monolith, brought from the quarries of Istria and weighing more than 300 tons.

Of Apries (Haa-ab-ra, Hophra) an obeliskand two monolith shrines are the principal remains.

The societies advised that trilithon 6, 7, with lintel - which had slewed round - and trilithon 56, which was leaning at a dangerous angle, should be examined with a view to replacement with as little excavation as possible; that the monolith and lintel 22 be replaced, and its companion sarsen (21) secured; and that trilithon 57, 58, should be re-erected in its place, which was exactly known.